Blogging is a fun thing, but it usually occupies a pretty low spot in the priority ranking for life activities. It's not intentional, but so many things just seem to get in the way. After all, as a great band once said, life gets in the way of living. For that matter, another great band once said life is what happens while you're busy making plans. Not to mention a band that once said you should be living.

Alright, enough of that. Leisure time seems to have been sucked into a black hole. If so, that black hole is known as work, overtime at work, feeble attempts at physical fitness, sleep, household cleaning, grocery shopping and other such luxuries. Gone are the afternoons of leaving work early, skipping the gym and going home to keep the sofa company while watching three movies in a row, episodes of Ken Burns' National Parks and TV on DVD seasons. Perhaps the greatest casualty has been the reading of books. That just does not happen anymore.

This gradual decline into the "no fun zone" of life has only been helped by what seemed like endless rain in September and October and Daylight Savings Time, which means a special effort is required to leave work before pitch black darkness. All in all, not a fun situation.

But as with the rain and the daylight, eventually things get better. Sometimes you don't realize it, but clouds part and days get longer. Then there might be time for something as inconsequential as committing thoughts to a permanent record that nobody really cared about anyway.